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What is the adjective for wide?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb widen which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

wide
  1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  2. Large in scope.
  3. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
  4. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  5. (phonetics) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
  6. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
  7. Remote; distant; far.
  8. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
  9. (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “He careened down the wide highway without a care in the world.”
      “His wide eyes were filled with panic when he heard a sudden noise during the night.”
      “It was difficult to choose from such a wide range of keys.”
widening
  1. Growing wider or farther apart.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Her mind relaxed into an unfeeling world where the only thing she saw was the widening hole.”
widthless
  1. Without width.
wider
  1. comparative form of wide: more wide
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Push to Talk service is offered over a wired network, allowing for a far wider range than traditional walkie-talkies.”
      “Analysts believe the Bank must step up its commitment to QE to bring down gilt yields as part of efforts to revive the wider economy.”
      “It is designed to encourage a wider spread of communities participating in Waitangi Day events.”
widest
  1. superlative form of wide: most wide
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It's about reaching of the widest possible audience we can to advertise our products and services.”
      “If that is the case, then he was wrong, for as an exploration of that war in its widest sense, it is a gripping read.”
      “The widest zone begins with a belt, composed of two cords and two ribbons, geometrically ornamented, while the aperture is wavily etched.”
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